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Rethinking the Digital Product Passport: Why SupplyOn Is Making Material Master Data a Strategic Backbone

Rethinking the Digital Product Passport: Why SupplyOn Is Making Material Master Data a Strategic Backbone

Global supply chains are at a turning point. What was long considered an operational discipline is increasingly evolving into a data-driven management task under regulatory pressure.Sustainability requirements are becoming increasingly stringent, data requirements are growing exponentially, and companies must manage both across complex, international supplier networks. At SupplyOn, we are observing this transformation across all…

“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

“Success as a Service”: Supplier Onboarding at SupplyOn

Supplier Onboarding is the first and most important step for successful digital collaboration with your business partners via SupplyOn. But what does it take to get started smoothly? Here we show you in words and pictures how we successfully bring our customers and their suppliers on board through expertise, communication, and experience.Why Supplier Onboarding is…

Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

Four reasons to reshore and diversify your suppliers

In 2025, global trade has gone from unpredictable to adversarial. Dramatic tariff peaks and valleys on Chinese goods. Painful U.S.–EU duties and countermeasures. Pendulum swings on steel and aluminum levies. And volatile conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all at once.Procurement and supply chain executives understand that diversified sourcing is now a strategic…

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How Continental China optimized its warehouse collaboration with SupplyOn

Using SupplyOn, Continental China could finally ensure a transparent collaboration with its 50 external warehouse service providers, thus optimizing internal and external processes. The prerequisite for this was a comprehensive process for the planning, recording, and reporting of warehouse inventories and processes. Continental can now monitor inventories and movements as well as significantly increase delivery commitments and…
How Continental China optimized its warehouse collaboration with SupplyOn

Going beyond operational supply chain digitalization

Nowadays, most leading companies have EDI interfaces in place to communicate their demands, improve demand visibility, and receive information about shipments. The most advanced ones use cloud platforms, allowing for real-time collaboration with suppliers and other business partners like subcontractors or carriers. It goes without saying, that analytics and big data play an increasing and…
Going beyond operational supply chain digitalization

Railway Forum 2017: Digital transformation is shaping the innovation agenda of the railway industry

The fifth Railway Forum was held in Berlin on August 30/31. Once again, the focus was on the digital transformation that is taking place at all levels.
Railway Forum 2017: Digital transformation is shaping the innovation agenda of the railway industry

Software engineering: Don’t slice the elephant – create a paradise

Often when someone thinks about software engineering, he gets the recommendation to slice the elephant. E.g., you want to design a nice e-commerce pet shop, you need to cut it into individual slices.But for me, slicing the elephant sounds quite strange: An elephant in slices is still difficult to handle – even then those slices…
Software engineering: Don’t slice the elephant – create a paradise

Supply Chain Days: About digital disruption and ambition

EY’s conference “Supply Chain Days” was held on June 21 and 22 in Heidelberg. More than 150 experts discussed the next step: the digitalization of the supply chain.The intense interest in this topic was reflected not only by the large number of attendees, but also by the caliber of the participants and speakers: They included…
Supply Chain Days: About digital disruption and ambition

Automated goods receipt – part 2: How to avoid relabeling

There is definitely a lot of “beeping” going on at my customer’s first plant goods receipt area, where the goods are now being processed – in a considerably more relaxed manner – with scanners.In the first part of my post on goods receipt optimization, I described how to automate goods logging with electronic notifications.Now merely…
Automated goods receipt – part 2: How to avoid relabeling

Automated goods receipt – part 1: Recording deliveries

The electronic ordering process had just been successfully introduced. As I walk through my customer’s plant grounds after our final meeting, I think to myself “there sure are a lot of trucks in front of the gates,” and get into my car.As soon as I get on the highway, I call my customer once more,…
Automated goods receipt – part 1: Recording deliveries

How to enhance collaboration between procurement and quality management

Digital transformation or not: Working together is often difficult even when system-supported processes are in place. This occurs not just on a large scale, e.g. in the collaboration between companies and their suppliers. It also happens on a small scale, e.g. between different departments. Here companies face challenges such as media discontinuity, a lack of…
How to enhance collaboration between procurement and quality management

Siemens–SupplyOn Suppliers Day: Collectively driving digitalization

“Help shape the future with us”. This call to action greeted over 60 participants at the first Siemens and SupplyOn Suppliers Day. Together with the German Federal Logistics Association (BVL), the two companies invited participants to share their experience of supply chain digitalization in Freising on May 4th.
Anja Weber · May 12, 2017 - Reading time < 7 Min.
Siemens–SupplyOn Suppliers Day: Collectively driving digitalization

Industry 4.0 generates excitement at Aeromart Montréal

With Montréal emerging as a global networking platform for organizations in the aerospace industry, the 5th Aeromart Montréal exceeded critical mass with 1,300 participants representing 800 companies from 28 countries, including growth markets in the US, Asia, India, Africa and Europe. Part of a series of aerospace conferences produced internationally by BCI Aerospace, the 3-day…
Industry 4.0 generates excitement at Aeromart Montréal